Types of feet ❎

1º/•Iamb: consists of one unstressed (x) and one stressed syllable (/): duh-DUH, as in collapse. : :check 1 : ✅

2º/•Trochee: consists of one stressed (/) and one unstressed syllable (x): DUH-duh, as in pizza. ✅ 2

3º/• Spondee: two stressed syllables (//): DUH-DUH, as in old world. 3

4º/• Pyrrhic: two unstressed syllables(x x): duh-duh, as in in the cold sea. ✅ 4

5º/•Anapest: consists of two unstressed syllables and one stressed syllable (x x /): duh-duh-DUH, as in but of course! ✅ 6

6º/•Dactyl: consists of one stressed syllable and twounstressed syllables (x / /): DUH-duh-duh, as in honestly ✅ 5

Iambic (x /): Because it mimics the natural rhythm of language, it is the most common. Any poetry anthology will contain more iambic pentameter than any other meter.
That time of year thou mayst in me behold. ❗

Trochaic (/ x):
Tell me not in mournful numbers. ❗

Spondaic** (/ /):**
Cry, cry! Troy burns, or else let Helen go. ❗

Pyrrhic (x x):
When the blood creeps and the nerves prick : ❗

Anapestic (x x /):
And the sound of a voice that is still. ❗

Dactylic (/ x x): This is the forest primeval, the murmuring pines and the hemlock (a trochee replaces the
final dactyl). ❗

In this line, we also find an example of inversion ‼

  1. Caesura and enjambment ❤

Enjambment (from the French for “straddling” or “overlapping”)is incomplete syntax at
the end of a line. Often, this delay of meaning creates dramatic tension at the end of a line ⭐

CaesuraSometimes a natural pause occurs in the middle of a line rather than at a line-symbol: ||. ⭐

Caesura can be initial (occurring at the beginning of poetic line), ✏

Caesura can be or terminal (occurring at the end of a poetic line). ✏

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Caesura can be
medial (occurring in the middle of line), ✏

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